Type-holder



(No Model.)

E. e. BELL. TYPE EOLDEE.

Patented Mam.V 4; 1884.

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UNIT-ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN C. BELL, `OF TITUSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

TYPE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,355, dated March 4, 1884.

(No model.)

T all whom/vit may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN C. BELL, a otizenof the United States, residing at Titusville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Typellolder, of `which the following is a speciiieation.

My invention is a device for holding a string orcord in place and tightly drawn, as in the composing room of a printing-office, Where the type is set up in form and secured by a cord passed around the form while waiting its place in the chase and press, the object being to make a clasp that shall hold the cord tightly when drawn around the form. I attain this object by the mechanism illustrated in the aeoompanying drawings, in Which#- Figure l represents a form of type as set up, and with my device applied and cord drawn around previous to being fastened; andl Fig. 2, the same with the cord fastened.

Similar parts in. the. two gures are indicated by the same letters.

Ais a frame or bed-piece, having at one end the right-angle hook E, to engage on one corto and projecting from ner of the forni. At the other endis attached When the form is set up and placed upon the stone, the device is applied, the hook E engaging with one corner of the form, the voord B is passed around the form and over the stud y C, and the hook D brought down, compressing the cord between the hook D and the stud C, and holding'it firm-ly and-securely in place. 4o

.I claim as my inventionv As a device for holding a form of types together, the bed-piece A, with its hooked end E, cord B, stud C, and swinging hook D, all

working in combination, substantially as de* scribed.

. EDWIN C. BELL.

Witnesses:

GEO. DILLINGHAM, A. B. HOWLAND. 

